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From: Erik Naggum
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Subject: Re: Performance tuning
Date: 06 Dec 2000 01:57:12 +0000
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* Gareth McCaughan
| It would be interesting to know whether it's easier to make an MD5
| perform well in CMU CL, which can do a pretty good job (better than
| any other CL, I think) of handling machine-word-sized integers. Of
| course, the likely result would be an implementation that works well
| under CMU CL and appallingly badly on other Common Lisps, which might
| be a pity.
I don't think that's a pity. As long as we can specify the behavior
such that it can be used the same way in every implementation, I don't
care how implementation-specific the implementation is.
#:Erik
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